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The Healing Power Of Silent Gratitude

The concept of gratitude is often discussed among people as something more of a concept other than something that should be applied every day. Gratitude is a feeling of gratefulness, not only for your health and the things that you have but for those that you have in your life. Gratitude is the one thing that allows us to remain humble, helping us realize how lucky we are that we have been given, or have earned, the things that we possess. This could be anything from our family to our health, but we sometimes forget to be grateful, and this is where many problems can arise. There is a technique called silent gratitude, something that you do in isolation, a type of recapitulation if you will. It is a way of looking at your life in retrospect, and actually taking a moment to consider not only the visuals, but the emotions that you feel, and fully embracing the things that you have actually experienced. Let’s look at the healing power of silent gratitude and how it can begin to change your life.

How Do Silent Gratitude Help You

The difference between gratitude and silent gratitude really comes down to the things that you do in the presence of others, and those things that you do by yourself. When you are showing gratitude to people that have helped you, for instance, this is one way of expressing your appreciation for them being in your life, or for perhaps helping you accomplish something that you could not have done on your own. This is the most common form of gratitude, and is usually something that is experienced or delivered in a short burst, more of a social characteristic than something that can actually lead to personal healing. Silent gratitude, on the other hand, is something that you must do every day, and it is a very personal experience. Those that have gone on a vision quest, or even those that hike in the mountains and get lost in the extreme beauty that they see, can sometimes have one of these experiences. The key to making sure that you are able to benefit from all of this is to do so alone. It is a process, as mentioned before, of recapitulation, a looking at your own life and realizing how many things you should be grateful for.

The Healing Power Of Silent Gratitude

There are three specific ways that silent gratitude can benefit a human being. First of all, it is a way of distracting themselves from the stress and strife of their regular life. If you have a very stressful job, you may have been told to meditate and relax. But by looking at your life and being grateful for the things that have gone on, the experiences that you have learned from, you can redirect your focus from the negative aspects of every day life and reaffirm the positive. The second way is that you can actually see the consistency of your life and how very specific events have helped you become the person that you are. Every person has negative traits, but what we often forget is how many positive ones that we provide for others. There are certain events that may not have been very positive, but we learned from them and were able to grow as a person. By recognizing these, we can see that life is a pathway in which we must experience both the good and bad in order to grow as a human being. Finally, being grateful simply allows us to realize how lucky we really are in comparison to so many other people in the world today. When you actually look at what you have done, and the friends and family that you have, you may not realize how much you forget that on a regular basis. It brings about a very positive feeling, one that allows you to perceive the world through a perspective that is much more positive and loving. It is through this healing power of silent gratitude that many people have become capable of escaping what seem to be an endless routine negativity, springing forth into a new life that is full of both positive experiences and happiness based on a foundation of gratitude.